, at least 17 civilian journalists and media workers have been killed in the line of duty since the Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014. Six have been Russian, four Ukrainian, one Italian, one American, one Lithuanian, one Irish and three French.

An initial wave of journalist fatalities occurred in the early stages of the war in Donbas in 2014, starting with Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his interpreter, Russian activist Andrei Mironov. In the following four months, four Russian journalists in the company of Russian separatist forces were killed by Ukrainian fire, as was one Ukrainian journalist in an incident that both sides in the conflict blamed on each other. Two pairs of killings led to legal proceedings: In Rocchelli and Mironov's deaths, Ukrainian National Guard member Vitalii Markiv was tried in Italy for allegedly ordering the strike. He was convicted but later exonerated. In the deaths of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin by mortar strike, captured Ukrainian Army pilot Nadiya Savchenko was tried in Russia for allegedly ordering the strike. She was convicted and subsequently freed in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine. The relationship between Russian journalists and separatist forces became a subject of controversy.

A second wave of deaths began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Yevhenii Sakun, a Ukrainian, was the first journalist killed in that phase of the war, a victim of a Russian airstrike on the Kyiv TV Tower on 1 March 2022. Six more journalists have been killed by Russian soldiers, including four shot and one killed by shelling. The dead include American documentarian Brent Renaud, Ukrainian photojournalist Maks Levin, and most recently Lithuanian documentarian Mantas Kvedaravičius.

In addition, at least six Ukrainian journalists have been killed outside the line of duty or under ambiguous circumstances and at least seven journalists have been killed while serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine or the Russian separatist forces in Donbas.

Civilian journalists killed in the line of duty Eighteen journalists and media workers are listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists's database as having been killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War—seven in the war in Donbas in 2014–2015, Note: List includes one journalist killed outside the context of the war. ten in the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As of 11 October 2024, at least 18 civilian journalists have been killed in the line of duty according to the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.

Name and nationality Profession Employer Date of death Killed by Cause of death Andrea Rocchelli Photojournalist Cesura24 May 2014 Armed Forces of UkraineShelling Andrei Mironov Interpreter and fixer (Freelance) Igor Kornelyuk CorrespondentVGTRK17 June 2014 Armed Forces of UkraineShelling Anton Voloshin Sound engineer Anatoly Klyan Camera operatorChannel One30 June 2014 Armed Forces of Ukraine Shot Andrey Stenin Photojournalist Several news agencies Disappeared 5 August 2014Body found 3 September 2014 Armed Forces of Ukraine Unclear; body found in burnt-out car Serhiy Nikolayev Photojournalist Segodnya 28 February 2015 Disputed: Donbas People's Militia or Forces of Ukraine Shelling Yevhenii Sakun Photojournalist and correspondent ; EFE 1 March 2022 Russian Armed Forces Airstrike Brent Renaud Documentarian (Independent) 13 March 2022 Russian Armed Forces Shot Pierre Zakrzewski PhotojournalistFox News14 March 2022 Russian Armed ForcesShelling Oleksandra Kuvshynova Fixer Oksana Baulina Correspondent The Insider 23 March 2022 Russian Armed Forces Rocket strike Maks Levin Photojournalist LB.ua Disappeared 13 March 2022Body found 1 April 2022 Russian Armed Forces Shot Mantas Kvedaravičius Documentarian (Independent) 2 April 2022 Russian Armed Forces Shot (alleged) Roman Zhuk Photographer (Independent) 26 May 2022 Russian Armed Forces Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff Camera operator BFM TV 30 May 2022 Russian Armed Forces (alleged) Shelling Bohdan Bitik Producer La Repubblica 26 April 2023 Russian Armed Forces (alleged) Shot by Sniper Arman Soldin Reporter, video coordinator Agence France-Presse 9 May 2023 Russian Armed Forces Rocket attack Victoria AmelinaWriter and journalist(Independent)1 July 2023 Russian Armed ForcesRocket attack Rostislav ZhuravlevJournalistRIA Novosti22 July 2023 Armed Forces of UkraineShelling; cluster bombing (alleged by Russia) Boris MaksudovJournalistRossiya 2423 November 2023 Armed Forces of UkraineShelling; drone strike (alleged by Russia) Semyon EreminJournalistIzvestia19 April 2024 Armed Forces of UkraineDrone strike (alleged by Russia) Valery KozhinCameramanNTV13 June 2024 Armed Forces of UkraineShelling (alleged by Russia) Nikita TsitsagiCorrespondentNEWS.ru15 June 2024 Armed Forces of UkraineDrone strike (alleged by Russia) Ryan EvansSafety advisorReuters25 August 2024 Russian Armed ForcesMissile strike (alleged by Ukraine) Alexander MartemyanovCorrespondentIzvestia4 January 2025 Armed Forces of UkraineDrone strike (alleged by Russia) Tetiana KulykCorrespondentUkrinform26 February 2025 Russian Armed ForcesDrone strike (alleged by Ukraine) Alexander FedorchakCorrespondentIzvestia24 March 2025 Armed Forces of UkraineAirstrike (alleged by Russia) Andrei PanovCameramanZvezda Alexander SirkeliDriver Nikita GoldinCorrespondent22 April 2025 Anna ProkofievaCorrespondentChannel One26 March 2025 Armed Forces of UkraineLandmine (alleged by Russia) Antoni LallicanPhotojournalist3 October 2025 Russian Armed ForcesDrone strike (alleged by Ukraine) Ivan ZuevCorrespondentRIA Novosti16 October 2025 Armed Forces of UkraineDrone strike (alleged by Russia) Olena HramovaJournalistFreedom TV23 October 2025 Russian Armed ForcesDrone strike (alleged by Ukraine) Yevhen KarmazinCameraman

Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov

Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian journalist and activist Andrei Mironov, who was serving as Rocchelli's fixer and interpreter, were killed on 24 May 2014 near the city of Slovyansk. The two men, plus French reporter William Roguelon, and a local driver were fired at on the way to their car. Roguelon stated that they were then targeted with 40 to 60 mortars.

In July 2019, an Italian court convicted Vitalii Markiv, an Italian-Ukrainian dual citizen and an officer in the National Guard of Ukraine, of directing the strike that killed Rocchelli and Mironov. Markiv's conviction was overturned in November 2020, a decision made final by the Supreme Court of Cassation in December 2021.

Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin

Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, correspondent and sound engineer respectively for Russian state-owned broadcasting company VGTRK, were struck by Ukrainian mortar shells on 17 June 2014 while filming a separatist roadblock in Metalist, Slovianoserbsk Raion. Voloshin died instantly, while Kornelyuk died later that day.

Both men were posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.

Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian army helicopter pilot, was captured by separatists the same day and was accused of directing the mortar strike. She claimed that she had rather been captured an hour before the attack. Savchenko was convicted by a Russian court on 21 March 2016, in what Amnesty International characterized as a "flawed, deeply politicized trial". She was pardoned by Vladimir Putin as a result of a prisoner swap for two Russian soldiers two months later.

Anatoly Klyan

Anatoly Klyan, a camera operator for Russian Channel One, was killed by Ukrainian soldiers while traveling with a group of protesting soldiers' mothers on 30 June 2014 in Donetsk Oblast. The trip had been organized by separatists and the driver was wearing camouflage. Klyan continued to film the attack until he grew too weak.

Andrey Stenin

Andrey Stenin, a Russian photojournalist and correspondent for several Russian and international news agencies, disappeared on 5 August 2014 while embedded with Russian-backed forces in Donetsk. He was confirmed dead on 3 September 2014.

Stenin's body was found in a burnt-out car alongside Donetsk People's Republic militia Information Corps members Sergei Korenchenkov and Andrei Vyachalo (see ). Their deaths were not announced until ten days after his. The Interpreter magazine, a publication of the Institute of Modern Russia, suggested that Russia was trying to obscure the connection between Stenin and militia members. Ukrainian journalist described Stenin as a "zampolit of Strelkov" rather than a journalist.

Stenin was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage by Vladimir Putin.

Serhiy Nikolayev Serhiy Nikolayev, a photojournalist with the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya, died along with soldier Mykola "Tank" Flerko during the shelling of the village of Pisky on 28 February 2015. Nikolayev was wearing a bulletproof vest marked "PRESS". Both sides in the war blamed each other.

Nikolayev had previously been attacked by the Berkut special police while reporting on the Euromaidan demonstrations in 2013. After his death he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine by Petro Poroshenko.

Yevhenii Sakun

Yevhenii Sakun , a photojournalist for Ukrainian TV channel and correspondent with EFE, was killed by an attack on the Kyiv TV Tower on 1 March 2022, in what Reporters Without Borders described as a "precision strike" on the facility.

Brent Renaud

Brent Renaud, a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist who previously worked for The New York Times, was shot dead by Russian soldiers while at a checkpoint in Irpin on 13 March 2022. Renaud, who was known for his work depicting refugees and deportees, had been filming evacuating refugees, according to his colleague .

Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova Pierre "Zak" Zakrzewski , an Irish-French photojournalist working for Fox News, and Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova , a Ukrainian freelancer working with Fox, were killed on 14 March 2022 when their vehicle came under fire in Horenka, Kyiv Oblast. British journalist Benjamin Hall, also of Fox, was wounded in the same attack.

Zakrzewski had worked as a freelancer for some years, but had "with mixed feelings" moved to Fox partly because it was too dangerous to work in conflict areas without the support of a media organization. He had worked for Fox in the Iraq War, War in Afghanistan, and Syrian civil war, and had received Fox's "Unsung Hero" employee award for his role in evacuating Afghan freelancers and their families after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Shortly before his death, he had found an abandoned infant on the streets of Kyiv and brought it to a hospital.

Kuvshynova had been guiding Fox crews and assisting with newsgathering.

Killings of Oleksandra Kuvshynova and Pierre Zakrzewski were condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on 15 March.  According to global monitoring on the safety of journalists by the Observatory of Killed Journalists, their killings bring to 7 the number killed in Ukraine in 2022.

Oksana Baulina

Oksana Baulina, a Russian journalist for the independent investigative website The Insider, was killed in the Podilskyi District of Kyiv on 23 March 2022 by Russian shelling. She had been filming the site of a Russian rocket strike on a shopping center. Another civilian was killed in the same attack.

Baulina, once a fashion editor at Time Out Moscow, became an activist with Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in 2016. She emigrated to Poland shortly before the organization was branded extremist by the Russian government. Before the invasion, she was based in Warsaw, and during the invasion had reported from Kyiv and Lviv. Her final work included interviews with Russian prisoners of war, whom she let call home using her cell phone.

Maks Levin